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- or maybe the mom of one of our staff.
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We recently announced plans to grow our business through one of the largest-ever mergers in the public relations industry, combining operations with Pleon, Europe’s largest strategic communications consultancy. As a result, we’ve strengthened our position as one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse public relations agencies and Europe’s leading public relations agency, with more than 45 offices and affiliates in over 25 countries across the Continent.
We work for global clients, UK clients and very local clients. We’re seasoned communicators with backgrounds in journalism, marketing, science, the arts and prison (long story) among many other pertinent areas. We also have some of the best accountants, HR people, IT specialists and caterers helping us around the clock.
Most of our clients are leaders in their fields – healthcare, cosmetics, domestic goods, civil society, technology, food and beverage, professional services, and entertainment. The few that are not are striving to be, and we’re doing our best to help them get to the top.
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Snapchat Is Where It's At

One of the least understood social media platforms by people of my, shall we say, seasoned generation is Snapchat, which means we tend to ignore it.

And that means we're missing out on one of the fastest-growing and largest communities of younger-generation people - ten billion video views per day, according to investor data (having a hard time working that out, population-wise, but still...)

Like other social media channels, Snapchat is a great way for brands to reach consumers; perhaps more than other channels, Snapchat gives consumers a way to reach brands and other consumers with image-led content.

I'm a novice myself, still mostly in observation mode and frankly baffled by much of what goes on there - despite the best efforts of some dedicated users to tutor me.

Even so, it's clear that like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram before it, Snapchat is blurring the lines between who controls what and how our brands and organisations are portrayed.

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On Snapchat, “conversations are not only including a photo or video, but are being started by them,” Robert Peck, an analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, said in a report this week. “People’s behavior is changing so that photos are being used as speech instead of a repository for memories.”